Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Beer! It’s the law!

The real Beer-Lambert Law From http://students.info.uaic.ro/~andrei.luca/blog/ Share on Facebook

Starbucks

“Going to Star­bucks for cof­fee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough” — Adam Hills Share on Facebook

A good oldie : The case of the 500 miles email

As I am tidy­ing up my home direc­tory, I found this old gem that I saved to keep me amused on a rainy day, the blog is as good place to pub­lish it as any. ——- Sub­ject: The case of the 500-mile email. Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:57:40 –0800 From: Trey Har­ris <trey.sage.org> To: 0xdeadbeef@petting-zoo.net […]

UNIX is fourty! Happy Birthday!

So, UNIX, love it or hate it has been around for a while. It’s now 40 years old, it makes you won­der if com­put­ing is really that fast mov­ing. I believe that the fun­da­men­tals remain the same. Tech­niques, ideas and  usabil­ity (hope­fully) improves with time, as more and more users use it and devel­op­ers con­tribute to it. […]

Police negotiations and stopping tactics in South Africa

As demon­strated on youtube. I’ve always thought of our police as being soft on crim­i­nals, I also won­dered if they’d use harsher and more bru­tal force to catch the crim­i­nals if the crim­i­nals would stop run­ning. This has answered my ques­tion. Share on Facebook

A Bullet hitting wall, slow motion

This is cool! From: Your daily gif blog : Bul­let hit­ting wall. Share on Facebook

The ideal birthday cake for the frequent flier

This made me laugh. This was received by some­one I know, the guy lives on a plane, usu­ally in the front on British Air­ways, usu­ally in First Class, and in the best seat in the house 1A. The level of details is amaz­ing. Won­der if it tastes as good as it looks Share on Facebook

BBC Box

From Gwyd http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8193518.stm “I think Subhi has been fur­ther than the BBC box this year…” LOL Share on Facebook

Why you should not talk about work on Facebook

.….. while you’re friends with your boss If you’re not con­vinced, here is why UPDATE Alan posted this link from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7914415.stm The girl is a much big­ger moron than I though, she needs to learn her les­son, the hard way. Share on Facebook

Bird / Equine / Swine Flu

Don’t know if this is just a sick coin­ci­dence ‚  but…. 2007 – Chi­nese year of the Chicken – Bird Flu Pan­demic dev­as­tates parts of Asia 2008 – Chi­nese year of the Horse – Equine Influenza dec­i­mates Aus­tralian rac­ing 2009 – Chi­nese year of the Pig – Swine Flu Pan­demic kills hun­dreds of peo­ple around the […]